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Ambiguous Locks
The Cultural Role of a Retail Utopia
Langbeschreibung
It has long been said that a woman's hair is her crowning glory. Indeed, throughout history, hair has remained an important cultural symbol of femininity. In medieval art, iconic images of long, flowing locks can express sexuality, and the cutting of a woman's hair often signals her feminine misbehavior. Artists of all kinds in the Middle Ages used women's long hair to manipulate their audience's estimation of their female figures. This interdisciplinary work explores the significance of women's hair in literature and art from the medieval period through 1525, putting into historical context the ways in which hair participates in construction of the female identity.
Roberta Milliken is a professor of English at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio, where she teaches medieval and renaissance literature as well as women's studies classes.
ISBN-13:
9780786448708
Veröffentl:
2012
Erscheinungsdatum:
23.01.2012
Seiten:
302
Autor:
Roberta Milliken
Gewicht:
572 g
Format:
254x178x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch